Billy Corgan Launches Wrestling Co

Longtime wresting fan and, of course, rock star, Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago.
Nme.com reports that the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company that will debut on November 25 at Chicago's Excalibur Club.
Corgan told Fox News Chicago:
"I've been involved sort of behind the scenes with pro wrestling for about a decade and made a lot of friends in the business.
"It's a very insular business and it's a long story, but I essentially got involved with some brothers who had a wrestling promotion. We decided to form our own promotion and we're going to try to bring back the glory days."
Thanks for the report to Andrew Vaughan, Gibson.com.

Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...

So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.
I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.
Why is there no actual professional wrestling?

I have a soap opera for men. It's called the NFL except my soap opera has real life athletes. Not roided up figures pretending to be athletes. Wrestling is like a horrible acting soap opera on Telemundo except they pretend to hit each other by stomping on the ground.

slaveskinJACKET wrote:
Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...
So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.
I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.
Why is there no actual professional wrestling?

it probably has something to do with real wrestling being quite possibly the most dull thing ever

howamidriving? wrote:
slaveskinJACKET wrote:
Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...
So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.
I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.
Why is there no actual professional wrestling?
it probably has something to do with real wrestling being quite possibly the most dull thing ever

It's still a skill sport.
And it's way more entertaining than 'professional' poker, and that shit's on TV every single night, as well as the occasional bowling and darts tournaments.
I guess maybe poker's more appealing to the general public, since anybody can do play and anybody can win. It's just a game of luck, with skill and knowledge only needed to win big (and more consistently).
I'm not saying I would watch professional wrestling, but it's just weird to me that it's an actual sport and it has absolutely no market. It's way more interesting than watching bowling, darts, or poker, which seem to have a semi-loyal fanbase.

slaveskinJACKET wrote:
howamidriving? wrote:
slaveskinJACKET wrote:
Billy Corgan has started his own professional wrestling company, Resistance Pro, in Chicago... the Smashing Pumpkins frontman will be creative director and come up with storylines for the company...
So... it's not actually professional wrestling; just more of that 'wrestling' 'entertainment' bullshit.
I find it strange that, as old as wrestling is -- as long as it's been around -- there is no professional wrestling in the US. After you're no longer qualfified to wrestle in the NCAA, it's pretty much MMA, wrestling 'entertainment', or a normal job like everyone else, with the prospect of wrestling in the Olympics.
Why is there no actual professional wrestling?
it probably has something to do with real wrestling being quite possibly the most dull thing ever
It's still a skill sport.
And it's way more entertaining than 'professional' poker, and that shit's on TV every single night, as well as the occasional bowling and darts tournaments.
I guess maybe poker's more appealing to the general public, since anybody can do play and anybody can win. It's just a game of luck, with skill and knowledge only needed to win big (and more consistently).
I'm not saying I would watch professional wrestling, but it's just weird to me that it's an actual sport and it has absolutely no market. It's way more interesting than watching bowling, darts, or poker, which seem to have a semi-loyal fanbase.

I personally would pick poker over wrestling any day. But that's just me.

shwilly wrote:
Pagan_Poetry wrote:
The name Smashing Pumpkins now takes on a-whooooole-nother meaning
*disclaimer: Yes I know the name means smashing as in "fine" like "god DAMN those pumpkins are smashing*Let's hope you didn't steal that joke from Celebrity Deathmatch, because it's really not that good...

God, I hope not. I mean, it IS a terrible joke, but I don't even watch that show, so if I did it was indirectly. That doesn't bode well ahaha

This can go two ways - Totally Awesome or a Horrible Fast Paced Death. I'm hoping for the former. I love wrestling but I don't know about Billy running the show. It's like Kevin Bacon or Bruce Willis trying to be a musician.

lank81 wrote:
This can go two ways - Totally Awesome or a Horrible Fast Paced Death. I'm hoping for the former. I love wrestling but I don't know about Billy running the show. It's like Kevin Bacon or Bruce Willis trying to be a musician.

Pagan_Poetry wrote:
lank81 wrote:
This can go two ways - Totally Awesome or a Horrible Fast Paced Death. I'm hoping for the former. I love wrestling but I don't know about Billy running the show. It's like Kevin Bacon or Bruce Willis trying to be a musician.
.... Kevin Bacon IS a musician...

xraycat wrote:
ne14t wrote:
fede01_8 wrote:
will be creative director and come up with storylines
what? they don't fight for real? O_o
And there is no Easter Bunny either!
And Slash is one of our parents!